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| AlphaBuddy Quilt from kit. |
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| Left side of picture shows backing of quilt. The green area shows how the machine quilting on the outside green triangles. |
I read all the blogs, I read the tips, but I don't like quilting on minky fabric. I think minky fabric needs to be used where there is not a lot of stitching to be done. The woman at the fabric store said she used it for baby quilt backing all the time. I should have asked her how much quilting she did on the baby quilt.
It is turning out okay, but it is tough to move and I am not getting a good free motion movement.
I do like the pattern for the top and might use it again if any more babies come through my life.
I am making my second baby quilt. This one is for the first grandchild of my boss due in July. Her name will be London Grace.
The backing will be out of minky. I have never worked with minky before. Should be interesting.
I started quilting the baby quilt tonight. Each square is quilted and now I am quilting the diagonals across the quilt.
I really hope it turns out like the drawings I have been working on for the quilt design.
It is hard to tell from the pictures, but the green and teal of the turtle panels match the teal and green in the geometric pattern. The binding will be from the same material in the sashing from the top.
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I saw some thread on an internet site that would be perfect for the baby quilt I am making, but do not know the brand and the few quilters I asked do not know it either, so I went out today looking for thread.
The first quilt shop had very helpful ladies working, but very small thread selection so they suggested a second store. I have had a bad experiences with the second store, but they have moved to a new location and it was close so I decided to try them again.
They did greet me when I entered, which was new as they had ignored me in the past. They did not have a very big thread selection, but they had something close to what I wanted in a brand I did not know. I went to the front desk and explained the project and asked if the thread I had picked out was appropriate. The sales clerk explained the thread to me and said it would work on the quilt. I went on to ask her if she had any like the one I saw on the internet. She said "No, and what did it matter, it was "just" a baby quilt."
I wanted to tell her that it was more than "just a baby quilt," but instead I paid for the thread and left.
I don't consider any quilt I make to be "just." I put love and care into each one. I put a lot of thought into the fabric choices, pattern, and the person. I do not know the parents of the baby I am making the baby quilt for but the baby's grandmother is very dear to me. I would never give her grandchild a "just" quilt.
A very dear friend recently became a grandma. I offered to make a baby quilt for her grandson.
It just so happened that she gave me some fabric that had been the baby's great-grandmother's and I am going to try to use that for the sashing.
The pattern grandma picked out:
The fabrics:
